![]() ![]() He is saying, “I will bring a number of people around you whom you cannot respect, but you must exhibit My love to them, just as I have exhibited it to you.” This kind of love is not a patronizing love for the unlovable- it is His love, and it will not be evidenced in us overnight. Now He commands me to show the same love to others by saying, “…love one another as I have loved you” ( John 15:12). And the Holy Spirit reveals to me that God loved me not because I was lovable, but because it was His nature to do so. The first thing God does is forcibly remove any insincerity, pride, and vanity from my life. But then we must practice the things mentioned in 2 Peter 1 to see them worked out in our lives. Initially, when “the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit” ( Romans 5:5), it is easy to put Jesus first. Love is the loftiest preference of one person for another, and spiritually Jesus demands that this sovereign preference be for Himself (see Luke 14:26). Love is an indefinite thing to most of us we don’t know what we mean when we talk about love. ![]()
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